Some celebrities and prominent businessmen play in private games in Beverly Hills (which I play in on occasion myself).
About 4 years ago, a losing player in these games was embezzling money from his hedge fund and is now in jail. A lawsuit now exists against players who played in those games and got checks from the embezzler.
Lawyers for those swindled by the embezzler claim these...
We’re very excited about the upcoming Season X on the World Poker Tour. (You should be too as the Royal Flush girls are coming back.) We’re televising several European events back in the U.S. this year, and I think that’s great.
We’re going back to Paris and are televising our WPT event in Vienna in the U.S. as well. The entire entourage including myself,...
To a professional poker player, winning the $50k buy-in Players Championship at the WSOP is as good as it gets.
You play multiple games (8) against a very strong lineup (Who puts up $50k to play a poker tourney that isn’t an excellent player?) and winning this tournament is very prestigious.
As of this writing, the final table of eight was just assembled, and Phil Hellmuth and Ben...
Mike Sexton and the rest of Team PartyPoker held a poker seminar at WSOP 2010 in front of a large audience of PartyPoker qualifiers. Mike gave some advice to the players so here is the full video so even our 2011 qualifiers can be better prepared:
Don’t be concerned by the size of the tournament
Be focused on the table you are playing at
Beat the table you are sitting at and you...
When you read about Shooting Stars and Satellites you could be forgiven for believing you are reading an article on astronomy.
Well I am just about to write about both and I know as much about Badugi as I do about astronomy so read on.
Party Poker Ambassador and Poker Hall of Fame member Mike Sexton recently made the final table at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament.
The great man...
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PartyPoker blog reader Philip asked Mike Sexton:
I have been playing poker now for 6 years online, in local casino and with friends frequently. My friends say I am a very good player but playing live in the casino I have a bit more to learn. I played an...
It was quite a week at Borgata. We had the largest field in the history of the World Poker Tour with 1042 entries. And I was one of them!
My partner, Vince Van Patten, and I weren’t allowed to play in WPT events the first five seasons. The next couple of years, we would go to the events the day before the final table and leave the day after, so I only played a few events during...
The final table of the first-ever WPT event in London was sensational. The WPT events in Europe are eight-handed, but the final table of the London event was perhaps the best-played final table in the history of the WPT.
Everyone played well, but it was the young guns that ‘wowed’ me – and they’ll ‘wow’ you too.
The 4th place finisher was 21 year-old...